Personal Narrative: The Oregon Shooter

Did you hear about the summary of the DC sniper case? It was a case that had everyone all over the east cost scared to be in any public area. The criminals had been using a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle. All of the victims in this case were killed in a public place. This case had two killers named John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. When they killed, it didn’t matter who they killed as long as there was blood shed and fear. The killers

The “Shootings at Columbine High School: The Law Enforcement Response” case, in Richard Stillman’s Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, Ninth Edition, covers the Columbine High School law enforcement response to the mass murders committed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Columbine High School is located in Littleton, CO, which is situated in the center of multiple jurisdictions. The case raises management communication

It seems like mass-killings, accidental firings and highway snipers have snuck comfortably into our society. Have we accepted mass shootings like Columbine HS, Sandy Hook Elementary and especially our local Lindhurst HS? Even law enforcement is not safe with the murder of five police officers in Dallas in one of our latest mass-shootings. With these famous, headline grabbing news stories, there are countless active shooter and murders that don’t reach national headlines. When is enough, enough? Very few social arguments are more polarizing than gun control. In Molly Ivins, “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns”, she takes a strong, passionate position

The media understands which topics are going to cause people to stop everything and listen better than anybody else. One of those topics is racially motivated brutality by police officers. This has become a major issue in the United States lately and the media adds fuel to the fire any chance they can get for their 15 seconds of fame. A good example of how the media turns regular law enforcement incidents into a topic of race is the way they word their headlines. This is especially true of articles as they want catchy titles in hopes of catching the attention of readers. Getting an individual to actually take the time to read an article is tricky business today as reading is considered by many to be a lost art. What better way is there for the media to attract attention than by saying a certain race is under attack? For example, the title “Man Tasered for resisting arrest” probably would not garner that much attention by today's standards. However if it gets a media makeover and is now, “Black man Tasered by officer for resisting arrest”, it will likely receive more attention. This is an unfair practice that stirs up more controversy and hate for law enforcement officers from those who can’t see past the racial propaganda. Cases like these are popping up all too frequently and as the reader has probably seen they can lead to civil unrest and

Since people are mostly only able to participate in catastrophes such as this mass shooting at a distance, news media is the primary source of information, which therefore creates the audiences’ reality of the events that occur.(Wheeler 80) With this, the mass media has the control of what people are exposed to, and the choice to amplify awareness to what they choose as important. In an interview conducted with Sarah, an undergraduate student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she recalled her exposure to the news of the shooting: “The only reports I had access to, was what I saw in the news”. When asked how she thinks the media had an effect on her perception of the shooting, she stated: ”Well I believe that since the only information I was able to get was from news sources, what I saw in the news is what I believed. So I really do think the media had a strong effect since I was exposed to mainly what they chose to present to me.” With this, media messages, such as the reporting on the Las Vegas shooting, exert a strong influence on audiences and the cultivation of people’s perception. The frequent exposure to these stories of mass shootings and the use of descriptors based on race are fed to the audience and become a common knowledge. Ultimately, the promotion of racial stereotypes through the disproportionate representation of perpetrators of mass shootings influences public opinion and perception.(Lankford) With the strong effect that media has on the people, it is

Everyday, the biased news media reports another mass shooting. The media reports the cases of “police brutality” and the media reports the tragic accidents. The media doesn’t report the research by David Burnett and Clayton Cramer who track incidents of defensive gun use. The stories include women fighting off would be rapists and senior citizens protecting themselves from robbers. They are stories that prevent violent crimes from occurring, for they are stories that save lives.

violent crime has been an issue that has been trying to be prevented for a long time. Every individual of high authority has the mindset that they are the one who can do the best to prevent violent crime or specifically gun control. Americans have this problems because they are the most advertised developed country that exposes the latest crimes or shootings even with people of authority such as Ferguson. An event like ferguson, makes a large group of individuals hateful towards the government and creates a distinction between people supporting the government and people against the government. Ferguson as an example is creating conflict between people of authority and people that want to be heard . This arises the question that does the exposure of violence and crime in media influence or impact

This brings up not just one problem but a large and complex amount of problems since there is no one solution for these events. The problem isn’t guns but the people who carry them. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is one of those quotes that many gun advocates use in there own defense, however, the truth is that people use guns for what they were made for, killing. So the blame isn’t the guns because that is there purpose, to end life, the blame is the people. Instead of putting all the blame on guns and the law we need to focus our attention on the people who commit these crimes and see why they committed them because finding the solution to what caused them to grab a gun and murder is the real solution to our “gun problem”.

Throughout my research I found that the book Criminology A Sociological Understanding, did a great job of listing the way media overdramatizes crime. The first way that the media does this is through something called crime waves. These crime waves pay close detail to a small number of multiple crimes which leads to a public panic that the crimes may keep occurring (Barkan, 26). One example in local media is something I saw on the local news tonight. 2 bodies were found today in Omaha in separate parts of the city

Over the past several years, there have been several high-profile police-involved shootings, and the justification behind the shooting has been questioned. Several of these shootings have resulted in a subsequent criminal conviction involving some form of a homicide charge for the police officer involved. This has created a great division between those who support and those who oppose the police. Police agencies and community leaders have sought to repair this relationship, and citizen police academies are one potential avenue.

On July 28, an eighteen-year-old black male named Paul O’Neal was driving a stolen vehicle when he was chased down, shot, and killed by police after a heavy car and foot pursuit. The collection of an ABC7 News written report (“Paul O’Neal Chicago,” 2016) along with police body and vehicle dashboard cameras gives a clear picture of what took place. Indeed, there were a number of psychological concepts at play during the incident, and it is crucial for authorities and the public to understand the extent to which the human mind and body are, at times, inevitably predisposed to these phenomena.

Police killed at least 308 african american people in the U.S. in 2016. Where are the other ethnic groups? Most people will assume that police are only brutal towards african american people when truly that is not the case. There have been other occurrences of this with whites, Asians, Latinos, etc, but media never focuses on that. People think this can be solved if police wear body cameras, but there is always the possibility of someone editing the video or the officer being at a weird angle and missing something important. Media is helpful in spreading awareness of police violence but, we never know what truly happened because of bias media changing stories and making reality seem worse than it really is.

Since anyone can post content on the Internet, it is important for one to know whether the information he or she has gathered is reliable or not. If one is not careful when doing research, his or her information may not actually be accurate. Thus, it is important to take the proper steps to ensure a website is reliable. When evaluating a website 's validity, it is important for one to consider the website 's author, publisher, accuracy, currency, bias, content, purpose, knowledge, and layout. The articles Oregon community college gunman 'left behind manifesto ' and Oregon shooting: Gunman dead after college rampage, are both posted on webpages and focus on the shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. Both sites were published by news websites and were successful at posting the date the article was published; however, Oregon shooting: Gunman dead after college rampage is the more reliable of the two.

On October 1, 2017 America was, yet again, devastated when Las Vegas suffered the United States worst mass shooting. One man killed over 50 people and injured 527. After he was finished firing from the 39th floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort, he committed suicide. His name was Stephan Paddock (Yan and Park). When most people think of a mass shooting, they think of a terroristic act or someone shooting at a large group of innocent citizens, like Columbine High School or Sandy Hook Elementary School. In actuality, most people do not realize that whenever two or more people are injured or killed by a gun, it is considered a mass shooting. These “mass shootings” happen every day in America and they are one of the leading causes of death in

The public for the majority part references the news media for any updates on the excellent and poor that’s taking place. The media is misleading the American population by applying this fallacy. Its not a clandestine that gun violence has transpired in the past and now, yet it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. In fact, gun violence is on the rise and its noticeable through the frequent outlining it leaves behind. The media is dreadfully calculative when reporting on stories and breaking news that entail massive school shootings. This is only one example, but a huge one because it continues to transpire. Moreover, the use of reporting on the massive school shooting is to appeal to the majority and have citizens support a particular agenda.